Numpy and Common Lisp?

Raymond Wiker rwiker at gmail.com
Tue Apr 11 10:50:31 UTC 2023


There’s cl-ana, which may be a useful substitute in some cases… or april, possibly.

https://www.cliki.net/cl-ana
https://www.cliki.net/april
If you specifically want numpy, it may be possible to have Common Lisp talking to python.

> On 11 Apr 2023, at 08:41, Marco Antoniotti <marco.antoniotti at unimib.it> wrote:
> 
> Hi Michael
> 
> I am all for it.  But, as I said, I am an academic (and a cat).
> 
> Should we (as in "a bunch of common lispers", most of whom with day jobs) want to do something like that, how would you want to proceed?  Note that I have been part of many past failures.
> 
> All the best
> 
> Marco
> 
> 
> On Tue, Apr 11, 2023 at 1:01 AM Michael Bentley <michael at stray-labs.com <mailto:michael at stray-labs.com>> wrote:
>> 
>>> IMHO, it'd be easier and effective to band up together and FIRST write a proper API specification and THEN implement it in CL.
>> 
>> I agree.  Here’s the API specification for NumPy: https://numpy.org/doc/stable/reference/index.html#reference
>> 
>> Looks rather intimidating. Less intimidating though, than doing the FFI dance, though.

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